Due to reporter error, an article in Sunday’s edition of The Daily News mischaracterized an alleged shooting as a pistol whipping. Anthony Cardell Square, 33, was charged last week by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and other crimes. Warrants state that Square “feloniously did assault (the alleged victim) with a pistol.” Authorities clarified on Monday that Square allegedly shot the other man in the leg.

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A Jacksonville man faces a slew of charges for allegedly pistol whipping another man and lying about his identity during a police investigation.

Anthony Cardell Square, 33, of Boyington Street, was charged Thursday by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon, resisting a police officer and identity theft.

Square is accused of assaulting with a pistol a Jacksonville man before giving responding officers a false name and then running away, according to warrants.

Square was arrested Thursday and charged with assault and for outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court on charges of driving while license revoked and operating a vehicle with no insurance. He had his first court appearance Friday.

Square’s previous felony conviction comes from his pleading guilty to possession of cocaine in 2005, according to court documents.

Square said he couldn’t find work and was living with a friend, according to an affidavit of indegency requesting a court-appointed attorney. Jacksonville lawyer Billy Joe Morgan will represent Square at his next scheduled court date in early May.